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From the Ukrainian revolution and war with Russia to the Bosnian uprisings, ISIS/Rojava/Kobane conflicts, the Brazilian World Cup protests, anti-police riots in Ferguson and beyond … 2014 was one hell of a depressing, inspiring, roller coaster of a year! For our year in review, we wrote to anarchists around the world to ask them what they thought were the most significant events of the last year and what they anticipate in 2015. Responses came in from correspondents as far off as Brazil, Russia, Columbia, Slovenia, Finland, and Germany, as well as across North America, with reports about 2014 and analysis of the possibilities for resistance in the upcoming year. We also stop to take stock of the last year of the Ex-Worker, and reveal some schemes and dreams for our next year of anarchist podcasting. And as if that wasn't enough, we share an exclusive report on squatting, eviction, and resistance in Prague, an analysis of recent anti-police rioting in Oakland, and discussions on listener feedback about Agency's Ebola article and the police in relation to the state, along with plenty of news, prisoner birthdays, and more. {January 20th, 2015}

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Table of Contents:

The Hot Wire [1:44]

Report: Squatting, Eviction and Resistance in Prague [14:44]

Report: Anti-Police Rebellions in Oakland [22:33]

Listener Feedback: Ebola Article and Engagement with News [34:05]

Listener Feedback: Police in Relation to the State [45:19]

Feature: The Ex-Worker’s Year in Review [56:12]

Anarchists Around the World Reflect on the Past Year and the Year to Come [1:00:23]

Another Year of the Ex-Worker

Prisoner Birthday Announcements and Closing

The Hot Wire [1:44]

Report: Squatting, Eviction and Resistance in Prague [14:44]

Report: Anti-Police Rebellions in Oakland [22:33]

Listener Feedback: Ebola Article and Engagement with News [34:05]

Listener Feedback: Police in Relation to the State [45:19]

Feature: The Ex-Worker’s Year in Review [56:12]

Anarchists Around the World Reflect on the Past Year and the Year to Come [1:00:23]

Another Year of the Ex-Worker

Prisoner Birthday Announcements and Closing

Update / correction: We reported on a Vice News article discussing the potential implications of newly thawed US/Cuba relations on Assata Shakur and other political refugees from the US living in Cuba. Turns out that we missed this article from the Guardian that indicates that the Cuban government explicitly does not plan to consider extraditing Shakur or other American refugees.

In our reflections on the last year of the Ex-Worker podcast, we mentioned that folks have made zine versions of some episodes, including the ones on police and on prisons. Others have excerpted parts of episodes and posted them to YouTube, including our features on insurrectionary anarchism, libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism (watch out for the comment threads!), and the World Cup protests in Brazil. If you turn up other examples of folks using our material in other platforms - which we totally support, with or without our permission! - drop us a line and we’ll post them.

Our correspondents in Mexico mentioned the struggle of indigenous autonomists from the municipality of Alvaro Obregon in Oaxaca as one to watch out for in 2015.

A couple of times in this episode, we referred to our criticisms of the “anti-imperialist” framework; you can hear some elaboration on this in Episode 24, specifically in response to North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, and rejecting the “enemy of my enemy is my friend deserving of my solidarity” logic.

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